Five former champions return to the workshop for another round of competition; creating a Christmas village puzzle out of six perfectly interlocking cookies and crafting massive Christmas mantels with realistic fireplaces.

Five cookie-makers re-create the feel of a cup of hot cocoa on a frosty Christmas morning by crafting holiday mugs out of cookies.

Five bakers flip the script on classic Christmas designs; the bakers make edible board games; incorporating boozy flavors into cookies.

Five top cookie makers create Christmas cookies that reflect decades past; crafting edible snow globes with 360-degree shine while drawing flavor inspiration from globe-shaped ingredients like blood oranges, golden berries and grapes.

Five cookie makers must take on the latest dessert trend and create cookies decorated to reveal surprises beneath the icing, then they have to defy gravity by building giant, hanging, cookie chandeliers worthy of the finest Christmas dinner table.

Five festive cookie makers use their imaginations to decorate cookies that feature the perfect present for ol' Saint Nick; the bakers also fashion the ultimate Christmas party-starter: life-size ugly Christmas sweaters.